Discussing the Pakistan of 1971

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Brasstacks Special: 1971 War - The Untold Story
Zaid Hamid discusses the lies and propaganda of India against the people of Pakistan and its armed forces regarding the 1971 war and exposes RAW's role in the Mukti-Bahni conspiracy to break Pakistan apart.
[1]. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULpCroezFrY
[2]. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfKKYt9hy5k
[3]. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTlidi0ZBrs
[4]. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3FGnFQQwGA
[5]. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHGKVN0p4v8
[6]. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQg0dw2gcxk

Excerpts from: "Blood and Tears"
Author of the book: Qutubuddin Aziz
Looking at the tragic events of March 1971 in retrospect, I must confess that even I, although my press service commanded a sizeable network of district correspondents in the interior of East Pakistan, was not fully aware of the scale, ferocity and dimension of the province-wide massacre carried out by RAW-sponsored Mukti-Bahni slaughter squads. The 170 eye-witnesses, whose testimonies or interviews are contained in this book in abridged form have been chosen from a universe of more than 5,000 repatriated non-Bengali families. I had identified, after some considerable research, 55 towns and cities in East Pakistan where the abridgement of the non-Bengali population in March and early April 1971 was conspicuously heavy. The collection and compilation of these eye-witness accounts was started in January 1974 and completed in twelve weeks. A team of four reporters, commissioned for interviewing the witnesses from all these 55 towns and cities of East Pakistan, worked with intense devotion to secure their testimony. Many of the interviews were prolonged because the Witnesses broke down in a flurry of sobs and tears as they related the agonising stories of their wrecked lives. I had issued in February 1974 an appeal in the newspapers for such eye-witness accounts, and I am grateful to the many hundreds of witnesses who promptly responded to my call.

Further Reading:
[1]. Book: Blood and Tears
http://www.statelesspeopleinbangladesh.net/blood_tears.php

[2]. Anatomy of Violence Analysis of Civil War in East Pakistan in 1971
http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/staff/materials/SBose-Anatomy_of_Violence-EPW_v_40_no_41_%282005%29.pdf
"While events of 1971 continue to evoke strong emotion in both Pakistan and Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan), there has been little systematic study of the violent conflicts that prevailed in the course of the nine-month long civil war. Popular attention has, thus far, focused on the Pakistani army’s action against the Bengalis, or on the India-Pakistan war. However, East Pakistan in 1971 was simultaneously a battleground for many different kinds of violent conflict that included militant rebellion, mob violence, military crackdown on a civilian population, urban terrorism to full-scale war between India and Pakistan. The culture of violence fomented by the conflict of 1971 forms the context for much of Bangladesh’s subsequent history. A careful, evidence-based approach to understanding the events of 1971 is vital if the different parties to the conflict are to be ever reconciled."

[3]. The truth about the Jessore Massacre
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060319/asp/look/story_5969733.asp
The massacre may have been genocide, but it wasn’t committed by the Pakistan army. The contradictory claims on the photos of the dead of 1971 reveal in part the difficulty of recording a messy war, but also illustrate vividly what happens when political motives corrupt the cause of justice and humanity. The political need to spin a neat story of Pakistani attackers and Bengali victims made the Bengali perpetrators of the massacre of Punjabi civilians in Jessore conceal their crime and blame the army. The New York Times and The Washington Post “bought” that story too. The media’s reputation is salvaged in this case by the even-handed eye-witness reports of Tomalin in The Times and Sunday Times.

[4]. Losing the Victims: Problems of Using Women as Weapons in Recounting the Bangladesh War
http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/materials/profile_materials/sbose-losing_the_victims-epw_v_42_no_38_2007.pdf
"Every war is accompanied by sexual violence against women. That rape occurred in East Pakistan in 1971 has never been in any doubt. The question is what was the true extent of rape, who were the victims and who the perpetrators and was there any systematic policy of rape by any party, as opposed to opportunistic sexual crimes in times of war. This work brings into focus the real victims of sexual violence by pointing out the paucity of reliable material, critically analysing widely cited testimonies of rape and suggesting the next steps to address the issue meaningfully."

[5]. Book: Pakistan - A Modern History, Ian Talbot, 1998, History, 432 pages
http://www.scribd.com/doc/37177183/Pakistan-a-Modern-History-by-Ian-Talbot
"On meetings between leaders of Awami League, President Yahya and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto it is stated that Awami League leaders used to arrive with Bangladesh flag flying on their cars."
"Sheikh Mujib-ur-Rehman, on one side, was engaged in negotiations with the President of Pakistan and on the other, on March 21st 1971 (National Day celebrations) he saluted militant students carrying Bangladesh flag."

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Speech of Mutiny:
"Yes; my father did break Pakistan", declares Bangladesh Premier, Sheikh Hasina Wajid
The Daily Mail
March 10th, 2010.

Dhaka — Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid has declared that her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was a traitor who formed a detailed conspiracy to break Pakistan into two pieces with the help of the Indian government and intelligence agencies during his stay in London in 1969 while the conspiracy was materialized in 1971. Hasina was addressing a discussion in Dhaka to mark the ‘March 7, 1971’ speech of mutiny, in which Sheikh Mujib called on the people of East Pakistan to prepare for secession from the rest of the Pakistan.

She said that her father made seperation plans just months after his release from Kurmitola where he had been detained in the Agartala Conspiracy Case, in which the Pakistan government had brought sedition charges against him and 34 others. “He went to London on October 22 1969, following his release in the Agartala case on April 22 that year. I reached London the next day from Italy, where I was living with my husband,” she recalled.

“It was there that my father at a meeting made plans for separating West Pakistan from East Pakistan, including when the war would start, where our fighters would be trained and where refugees would take shelter.”
“All preparations were made there (London). I was serving tea and entered the room several times where the meeting between my father and some Indian officials was being held. I heard their discussions,” the Prime Minister said.

Referring to the recent debate over who first proclaimed Bangladesh’s independence, she urged all to go through the reports of intelligence agencies and foreign ministries of different countries. She also said that the Aug 15, 1975 assassination of her father and family members, and the Jail Killings of four national leaders on Nov 3 the same year, were planned by those defeated in the war to take revenge for their defeat. “Those who rewarded the killers had never expected Bangladesh’s independence. They [India] wanted to impose the principles of the defeated forces on the people,” she added.

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